Keane Out After Six Sunderland Defeats In Seven Games

In a surprise move it is being reported that Roy Keane and Sunderland have parted company this morning, and the Sunderland players have been informed of Keane’s departure at a meeting earlier today.

Roy Keane – out as manager of Sunderland

Well, that’s what comes of beating Newcastle United at Sunderland for the first time in 28 years.

Since that time, when Sunderland and Keane were on a high, Sunderland have proceeded to lose 6 of their last 7 league games, and it doesn’t reflect well on Roy Keane, that he has elected to quite the North East club, in such dire circumstances.

Apparently there have been intense discussions behind the scenes between Keane, Chairman, Niall Quinn, and others and they have decided to part company with Keane.

Roy Keane was appointed as manager only 27 months ago, and immediately got them promoted from the Championship in his first season in charge.

This means that both Newcastle and Sunderland have lost their managers this season.

We had always throught that Keane would go on to be a very successful manager, but it just shows how things can change so quickly in football. You never know when you are going to go on a bad run, which can presumably start at any time.

We would be very surprised if Sam Allardyce gets the job at Sunderland, but his name is being banded around, but we’ll see what Sunderland plan to do, probably within the next few days. Comments welcome.

“Where’s ya keano gone…where’s ya keano gone”….lol That will be the chant rigning arund st. james on sat!

I am slightly dissapointed because i could see keano taking them down; now we require fat sam to take over and finish what keano started! He will surely take them back into the championship the useless fat f@ck!

hahahaha who’s the laughing stock of the EPL now?????? Chimbona on arepoted 50k per week???? hahahahahaha

If true, it’s the worst thing Sunderland could have ever done. He’s the best manager they’ve had in ages. I wonder if he’s fancy a job at NUFC along side Shearer? They used to get on ok together didn’t they? 😉

He just had to face facts. He spent around £80M on players, and although they have a few decent players, they just don’t seem to have the quality you would expect as a result of such expenditure.He was spoiled for talent at utd, and untimately, unless he gets a top job he was always going to have problems in management with the fact that (unless he got abu dhabi owners) he was never going to work with players of the same quality as his illustrious playing days.Given a good job, I think Keane would be a top class manager.

Nice idea, Philippe. Wisey is possibly the only qualified manager who is anything like as easy to dislike as Keano. (A friend of mine insuled Wise by not recognising him in her local in Beaconsfield recently. She asked him (she was behind the bar) if it was ok that the pink champagne was £65, in case it was a bit pricey. Not making this up. Classic.)

Aaaahnyway – back on track: I’m actually disappointed Keano’s gone, partly because it’s nice to hate a manager along with his team, and partly because I actually thought Keano deserved better after (let’s be honest) enabling us to even HAVE derbies this season. Shame he won one of ’em, but there ya go.

I missed the part about Quinn taking over. He did such a good job last time, so there should be no worries there. It’s always funny to have a laugh at the expense of the unwashed lot down the road, they really have shot themselves in the foot this time.

Oh well, at least we can take solace in the fact that no matter how bad it gets at NUFC you can always rely on the mackems to mess up and make us look good.

Whumpie – Would you not take Kenwyne Jones too? I really rate him. As for the derby games. I know it may not be the popular stance on here, but I’d much rather have NUFC, Sunderland and Smogs in the PL than not. Yeah, it’s funny to see them relegated and all the Red House and Monkwearmouth scummers crying into their knock off gear, but everyone loves the derby games and I’d rather any north east team take a PL position rather than it go to a midlands or a london team.

Much better to have them in the Premiership, provided we turn the corner and give them a hiding next time and continue to right that last wrong. It’s also a great time to work in Sunderland. Oh how they are fretting….

33 players signed between 60-70m spent you could count on one hand the half decent ones not a recipe for success is it. some of them are shouting for the return of peter reid monkeys heed what a laugh. me i’d prefer howard wilkinson or lawrie mcmenemy. FAT SAM FOR THE JOB THEY DESERVE EACH OTHER for once i’ll enjoy going to work with the mackems tomorrow

I’ve just been looking through the SMB fan sites (which may i add are really crap) to have a laugh at what there saying about keane going when i came across this absolute gem of an very old entry.

Howard is an inspired choice – who better to get Sunderland climbing that league? He has all the experience of Premiership football. We will show them Magpies what we can do with our ex-England manager. Well done Mr Murray, you have come up trumps again. Keith Robertson, Jarrow, UK

The majority of people on here need to grow up and have some sympathy as we all know what it feels like to lose a manager. Have a thought for those poor supporters of our closest neighbours.

During this festive season we need to show compassion to any Sunderland fans we may speak to. Offer them a shoulder to cry on, give support during their time of need. After all, it isn’t easy being an unwashed lepar in todays society.

These poor window lickers have had a bad time in our shadow for long enough, and just when they thought they could see light at the end of the tunnel it turned out to be the 9.45 from Kings Cross hurtling towards them.

So as Roy Keane and his family put out their dustbin fires and pack up their caravans in the Stadium of plights car park, lets all just be thankfull that the dirty little Oirish pikey and his family are leaving.

And in the run up to Christmas, these sad, unwashed fools can now start dreaming about a fat bloke, full of promise rolling into town. Only what he delivers isn’t really what you had on your wish list. Come on down, Sam Allardyce!!

Merry Christmas everyone, who needs presents when you have the mackems to laugh at!!!

In all seriousness, I know it’s hard to be serious about this, but I really thought old Keano would have done a decent job. He’s played under two of the best managers of all time Brian Clough and Sir Alex. Some of that must have rubbed off on Keane. I know this won’t be a popular stance, but I do have a lot of time for Keane, he just chose the wrong club to manage.

Workyticket – I see what you did there. Living up to your name I see. 🙂

the mackems are going down. Remember they managed to attract alot of players through keanes rep… as sunderland is completly unknown anywhere outside of england. Most people I talk to think its a theme park, well they are right there!! So most players will be looking at the table, and alardyce coming in and will want to run… who would blame them!

talk about shooting yourself in the foot. absolutly hilarious. They’ve been having a right good laugh at the state of us for a while now, and karma has came to get them. Keane for me could be a very good manager, but when you’ve spent the money that he has, you’re in the bottom 3, you’ve lost 6 out of 7 and you’re away to take a complete spanking from your former employee in a weeks time, you can understand him running scared 🙂 haha. However, i’d preferr not to see them relegated. we’ve been without the derby for years thanks to them being a heap of sh!te and i’d rather have them here because you cant beat home or away to the mackems!

Polls

Kacper Tylenda Website Designer

One of our avid readers Kacper Tylenda from Poland was the person who came in during April, 2017 and redesigned this web-site from top to bottom.

We think he did a fantastic job to modernize the site with the roll-out on Thursday May 18th surprisingly smooth.

I am so appreciative of his help.

Kacper is starting his own business in web-design so if you want a website built or know of people who want to redo their sites in any way – here’s his portfolio.

Transfers Summer 2017

Player

Fee

Club

INCOMING

Christian Atsu

£6.2M

Chelsea

Florian Lejeune

£8.8M

Eibar

Jacob Murphy

£10M

Norwich

Javier Manquillo

£4.5M

Atletico Madrid

Mikel Merino

£2.5M Loan – season

Borussia Dortmund

Kenedy

Loan – season – pending

Chelsea

Joselu

£5.0M

Stoke City

Transfer Fees In

£37.0M

OUTGOING

Vurnon Anita

Released

Aston Villa

Sammy Ameobi

Released

Bolton

Haris Vuckic

Released

FC Twente

Lubo Satka

Released

FC DAC 1904

Florian Thauvin

£10.0M

Marseille

Kevin Mbabu

£1.0M

Young Boys

Matz Sels

Loan – season

Anderlecht

Yoan Gouffran

Released

Goztepe

Adam Armstrong

Loan – season

Bolton

Lewis Gibson

£1.0M Up to £5M in add-ons

Everton

Daryl Murphy

£2.0M

Nottingham Forest

Ivan Toney

Loan – season

Wigan Athletic

Transfer Fees Out

£14.0M

Net Spend

£23M

Preseason Friendlies 2017

Club

Location

Date

Hearts Won 2-1

Tynecastle

Friday 14th July 7:45pm

Preston Drew 1-1

Deepdale

Saturday 22nd July 3:00pm

Bradford Won 4-0

Valley Parade

Wednesday 26th July 7:30pm

Mainz 05 Lost 2-1

Opel Arena, Mainz

Saturday 29th July 4:00 pm local time

Wolfsburg Won 3-1

AOK Stadium, Wolfsburg

Wednesday 2nd August 4:00pm local time

Hellas Verona Wopn 2-0

St. James’ Park

Sunday 6th August 3:00pm

football club

It’s the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city. It’s a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father’s hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love.